"Do not go where the path may lead,……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. --Ralph Waldo Emerson"
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2,823 Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities…
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If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the…
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There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not…
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Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
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Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
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The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial…
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One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the…
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Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.
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The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.
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A little praise goes a great ways.
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I didn't care at all about losing, but I just didn't want Emerson to feel bad, You know, I didn't…
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The character truest to itself becomes eccentric rather than immovably centered, as Emerson defined the noble character of the hero.…
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There is, as Emerson says, some central idea or conception of yourself by which all the facts of your life…
— Wallace D. Wattles
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I love the fact that it starts from there, and you don't know where it's gonna go. Wait long enough…
— Hector Elizondo
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Emerson then incarnated the moral optimism, the progress, and the energy of the American spirit.
— Howard Mumford Jones
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I could...see in Emerson...that had he lived in those days when the world was made, he might have offered some…
— Herman Melville
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President Heber J. Grant often quoted the following statement, which is sometimes attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson: “That which we…
— Heber J. Grant
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"All government in essence," says Emerson, "is tyranny." It matters not whether it is government by divine right or majority…
— Emma Goldman
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Of the creative spirits that flourished in Concord, Massachusetts, it might be said that Hawthorne loved men but felt estranged…
— Leon Edel
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India was China's teacher in religion and imaginative literature, and the world's teacher in trignometry, quandratic equations, grammar, phonetics, Arabian…
— Lin Yutang
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The ancestor of every action is a thought. —Ralph Waldo Emerson
— David Allen
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To spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get your emotions going. To be enthusiastic every day…
— Jim Valvano
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